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Vernicia cordata (Japanese tung oil tree)

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Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Monoecious
Hazards [1]  The oil from the seed is poisonous;
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Structure [1]  Tree
Usage [1]  A drying oil obtained from the seed is used for treating woodwork, for lighting, soap making, varnish etc;
Height [1]  23 feet (7 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Vernicia cordata

Predators

Arna bipunctapex[2]
Octaspidiotus stauntoniae[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0